Now, if you use Bash (which is the default shell), add it to your $PATH: open -e ~/.bash_profileĪdd this to the file at the end: export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' Copy this file to /usr/local/bin: cd ~/Downloads/ Once downloaded, extract the file, open up Terminal.app, and navigate to the directory where you unzipped the files, i.e. This is why I don't recommend using them unless you don't really care about which specific features you need. Static builds cannot contain every possible encoder, mostly due to licensing issues. The FFmpeg project, on the download page, offers links to static builds for ffmpeg, which you can just download, extract, and use in a terminal. To update ffmpeg later on, run: brew update & brew upgrade ffmpeg This will download a lot of dependencies such as x264, but after that you should be good to go. Then install FFmpeg through the ffmpeg formula: brew install ffmpeg Homebrew has a formula for stable FFmpeg releases.

To follow this you need to have a bit of knowledge using a terminal/shell under macOS. There are three options, sorted by complexity:

Install ffmpeg mac terminal